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Formation control deals with the design of decentralized control laws that stabilize agents at prescribed distances from each other. We call any configuration that satisfies the inter-agent distance conditions a target configuration. It is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

A reinforcement learning agent that needs to pursue different goals across episodes requires a goal-conditional policy. In addition to their potential to generalize desirable behavior to unseen goals, such policies may also enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Paulo Rauber , Avinash Ummadisingu , Filipe Mutz , Juergen Schmidhuber

We have developed a simulation model to describe particle adsorption to and desorption from liquid interfaces. Using this model we formulate a closed interfacial equation of state for repulsive elastic spheres. The effect of a long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-24 Robert D. Groot , Simeon D. Stoyanov

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a widely used nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. However, when running the PSO algorithm, one encounters the phenomenon of so-called stagnation, that means in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

In this paper, we study the formation of clusters for stochastic interacting particle systems (SIPS) that interact through short-range attractive potentials in a periodic domain. We consider kinetic (underdamped) Langevin dynamics and focus…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Benedict Leimkuhler , René Lohmann , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Peter A. Whalley

We review recently introduced numerical methods for the unbiased detection of the order parameter and/or dominant correlations, in many-body interacting systems, by using reduced density matrices. Most of the paper is devoted to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Christopher L. Henley , Hitesh J. Changlani

Non-uniform scaling control of formation enables multi-agent systems to adjust their shape by scaling with different ratios along different coordinate axes, offering enhanced flexibility in complex environments. However, like most existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Tao He , Gangshan Jing

A group of mobile agents, identical, anonymous, and oblivious (memoryless), having the capability to sense only the relative direction (bearing) to neighborhing agents within a finite visibility range, are shown to gather to a meeting point…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Levi-Itzhak Bellaiche , Alfred Bruckstein

We study the joint asymptotic behavior of spacings between particles at the edge of multilevel Dyson Brownian motions, when the number of levels tends to infinity. Despite the global interactions between particles in multilevel Dyson…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Vadim Gorin , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We consider continuous-time consensus seeking systems whose time-dependent interactions are cut-balanced, in the following sense: if a group of agents influences the remaining ones, the former group is also influenced by the remaining ones…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Julien M. Hendrickx , John N. Tsitsiklis

The distributed dual ascent is an established algorithm to solve strongly convex multi-agent optimization problems with separable cost functions, in the presence of coupling constraints. In this paper, we study its asynchronous counterpart.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Mattia Bianchi , Wicak Ananduta , Sergio Grammatico

We address the generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can only exchange information with some neighbors, although its cost function possibly depends on the strategies of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Mattia Bianchi , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

Inferring the laws of interaction between particles and agents in complex dynamical systems from observational data is a fundamental challenge in a wide variety of disciplines. We propose a non-parametric statistical learning approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni , Sui Tang , Ming Zhong

We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ritwick Sarkar , Sreya Chatterjee , Urna Basu

Distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problem for multi-coalition games has attracted increasing attention in recent years, but the research mainly focuses on the case without agreement demand within coalitions. This paper considers a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jialing Zhou , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen , Jinhu Lv , Dezhi Zheng

In large systems, it is important for agents to learn to act effectively, but sophisticated multi-agent learning algorithms generally do not scale. An alternative approach is to find restricted classes of games where simple, efficient…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-03-16 Ian A. Kash , Eric J. Friedman , Joseph Y. Halpern

Computer simulations and theory are used to systematically investigate how the effective force between two big colloidal spheres in a sea of small spheres depends on the basic (big-small and small-small) interactions. The latter are modeled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Louis , E. Allahyarov , H. Lowen , R. Roth

In formation control, triangular formations consisting of three autonomous agents serve as a class of benchmarks that can be used to test and compare the performances of different controllers. We present an algorithm that combines the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Hector Garcia de Marina , Zhiyong Sun , Ming Cao , Brian D. O. Anderson

We consider a self-propelled particle system which has been used to describe certain types of collective motion of animals, such as fish schools and bird flocks. Interactions between particles are specified by means of a pairwise potential,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-05 J. A. Carrillo , S. Martin , V. Panferov

We prove the existence of a solution to an equation governing the number density within a compact domain of a discrete particle system for a prescribed class of particle interactions taking into account the effects of the diffusion and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Clive G. Wells